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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 82

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-loaders, with a range of about 1200 yards. Carronades— short pieces with a heavy shot but limited range — found favor also,especially with British sailors, eager for that close-quarter fighting in whichthe Smasher—as General Melville called his carronade — would be mosteffective in shattering… … 72 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY and the mount was a wooden carriage on low trucks. The training, or hori-zontal angle of the gun, was effected by rope tackles, and the amount of ele-vation of its muzzle depended upon the position of a quoin, or woodenwedge, thrust beneath the breech.…

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